From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 3 13:51:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24769 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 13:51:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xwin.webweaver.net (xwin.webweaver.net [208.138.29.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24717 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 13:51:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole@xwin.webweaver.net) Received: (from nicole@localhost) by xwin.webweaver.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA00816; Sun, 3 May 1998 13:52:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 13:52:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole To: Joey Garcia Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Frank Pawlak , Don Wilde Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA24742 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01-May-98 Joey Garcia wisely wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Don Wilde wrote: > >> We have a shot at the server market, but unless we add to our appeal to >> the desktop set by improving ppp and printer setup and building our own >> office suite, we will remain a niche OS. That's why I take Jordan's >> comments to heart about carefully approaching the Popular Science crowd >> with inteesting articles, and why I want to make a Dummy's FreeBSD Demo. >> --> Don >> > The server market is a great idea, although it would be a good idea to > remind people that FreeBSD is a great workstation as well. Those that see > FreeBSD as a "server only" OS might be turned off if all they want is a > powerful workstation. I believe we should hit both crowds (server people > and workstation people) with equal emphasis, or perhaps just a bit more > emphasis on the server side. Do you guys agree? > > Joey Bear Garcia > > I don't think that the workstation part is a big deal. I have come to belive th at it is all how good it is, how much will run on it and the NAME. I just got the word that the company I work for wants to start incorporating mo re SUN machines and maybe even Linux systems becouse: 1) They want business users to see a Name they know. 2) Most Big Name commerce applications are not available for FreeBSD 3) They don't feel customers would feel comfortable having their commerce sites on an OS they don't know and a machine without a brand name (since I build our o wn) Lets face it the big NAMES these days are NT, SUN, and now Linux :< One of the biggest things that could be done is to do more marketing and perhap s expand the web pages showing who uses FreeBSD. These expanded pages featuring companies could be used as a marketing tool in the press and by users like mysel f in convincing the suits who feel Flash is more important than quality and usea bility. Perhaps: Company(w/URL) - what company does - #of machines - what machines do - contact name Just a wild suggestion. Nicole nicole@webweaver.net - http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org - http://www.dangermouse.org/ ------------------------------------------------- -- Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD -- -- Stong enough for a man - But made for a Woman -- -- Microsoft: What bug would you like today? -- -- I tried an internal modem once, but it hurt when I walked -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message